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These terms and conditions shall apply to the agreement between Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) and the individual or company ("You") applying for the provision of services by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing). The customer ("You") wishes to provide Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) with data that will be hosted on Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) servers and made accessible via the Internet.

If you wish to receive a service detailed on this or other websites, You must agree to the terms below as the exclusive basis for such provision. You will need to read through all the terms and conditions below. The following sections apply to the services indicated.

Section A - General - This applies to all services ordered from Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing)

Section B - Domain Name Registration and Transfer

Section C - Data Centre Internet Access and Hosting

Section D - Bandwidth Only Provision

Section E - Fair Use

Section F - Spam and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) Policy

IT IS HEREBY AGREED THAT:

SECTION A – GENERAL

1. DEFINITIONS In this Agreement, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:-

"AUP" Authorised Usage Policy

"Confidential Information" Information which is identified as confidential or proprietary by either party or the nature of which is clearly confidential or proprietary.

"Downtime" means any service interruption in the availability to visitors of the website

"Fees" The fees (including any VAT) due for the provision of the Services as calculated in accordance with the Price List.

"Inappropriate Material" Material that under the laws of any jurisdiction where the material can be accessed is any of the following:- unlawful, threatening, abusive, harmful, malicious, obscene, illegal pornographic, malicious, profane, libellous, defamatory, infringes any Intellectual Property Rights, constitutes or encourages a criminal offence or contains a virus, worm, trojan horse or other harmful code.

"Intellectual Property Rights"

Copyrights, patents, registered and unregistered design rights, database rights, topography rights, trademarks and service marks and applications for any of the foregoing, together with all trade secrets, know-how, rights to confidence and other intellectual and industrial property rights in all parts of the world.

"Hosting " Consists of providing ‘Managed & Unmanaged' services for the maintenance of shared and dedicated servers, including hardware maintenance and replacement. Though the speed and replacement time will be dependant upon the level of SLA for the server.

"Netiquette" Generally accepted standards of conduct relating to use of the Internet including, without limitation, not sending unsolicited mass e-mail, not impersonating another person, and not misrepresenting oneself to have authorisation from another person when one does not.

"Order Form" An order form provided by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) or available from Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) by post or fax on request, and completed by You to indicate which Services You require and Your agreement to these terms and conditions governing such provision .

"Price List" A list of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) prices for each of the Services as available on Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) Website or from Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) by post or fax on request.

"Server" The computer server equipment operated by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) and 'Hosting' in connection with the Provision of the Services.

"Service Level Agreement - SLA" The standard of physical support provided to a piece of equipment whether it is Hosting Services or Collocation Services.

"Services" The services are those order by the customer for Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to supply.

"Service Schedule" The breakdown of services ordered by the customer

"Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) Website" The Website located at www.Yachting Matters.com or such other address as may be adopted by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) from time to time.

"Uptime" The period of time that internet connectivity will be available for.

"Website" A website on the World Wide Web.

"Written Notice" Written notice may consist of a recognised email receipt that has been accepted, and received by the respondent, letter, facsimile or telegram.

1. PAYMENT AND SERVICES

1.1 In consideration for the payment of the Fees calculated correctly in accordance with the Price List on Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) Website at the time of the completion of an Order Form by You, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) agrees to provide the Services.

1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), You agree to make payment for the Services as follows:-

METHOD OF PAYMENT

1.2.1 by debit or credit card payment at the time of making the order; or

1.2.2 by standing order, or direct debit for payments which are to be monthly, quarterly or biannually.

1.2.3 by cheque for payments which are monthly, quarterly, biannually or annually as indicated by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing)

1.2.4 by BACS or WIRE transfers, whereby all transfer charges should be paid for by You and not Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing)

TIME OF PAYMENT

1.2.5 Payment for all Services must be made in advance of the date of supply or renewal of supply of the Service.

1.3 If You fail to pay any invoice which is due and payable under this Agreement, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) shall be entitled to charge interest. You are also being charged debt recovery costs and statutory interest of 8% above the reference rate pursuant to the late payment legislation.

1.4 Non-delivery or non-performance of services by any third party other than Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) subcontractors shall not give You any right to delay any payment to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) or to make any claim whatsoever against Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing).

1.5 If Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) does not receive payment within the agreed payment period of the date of the invoice, it may terminate this Agreement as regards any Service requested by without further obligation to You. (For most payment periods, there is a due date of within 15 days unless otherwise agreed with You and Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing))

1.6 For the purposes of this Agreement, time of payment is of the essence.

2. INDEMNITY

2.1 You hereby agree fully to indemnify, keep indemnified and hold harmless Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), its officers, employees, agents, subcontractors and affiliated companies from and against any and all costs, claims, losses, damages and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal fees) sustained or incurred by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) or its any of its officers, employees, agents, subcontractors or affiliated companies directly or indirectly and in any jurisdiction as a result of:-

2.1.1 any breach of any of the warranties given by You in this Agreement;

2.1.2 any breach of any third party software or otherwise licence agreements;

2.1.3 otherwise howsoever arising out of the provision by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) of any Service here under unless on account of breach of contract or negligence by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing); and/or

2.1.4 any breach by You of any of Your obligations in this Agreement

3. CUSTOMER AUTHORISATION AND OBLIGATIONS

3.1 You hereby appoint Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to act on Your behalf in conjunction with the provision of the Services.

3.2 You acknowledge and accept that to enable Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) properly to provide the Services You must co-operate with Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) as required by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) and, in particular:-

3.2.1 You must provide Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) with accurate details of Your e-mail and physical addresses and promptly notify Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) in writing of any alterations thereto from time to time;

3.2.2 obtain the consent of individuals whose personal data are to be held on a domain name register or are otherwise provided to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing).

3.3 You hereby undertake to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) not to use any of the Services in any way which might harm the reputation or goodwill of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), whether through use of Inappropriate Material or otherwise

3.4 You hereby authorise Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to release all required information relating to traffic and content passing though your account to judicial, police and other regulatory or official bodies where Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is required so to do.

4. WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

4.1 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) makes no warranties or representations that Any Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. You accept all Services provided here under "as is" without warranty of any kind.

4.2 All implied conditions, warranties and terms (whether express or implied by statute, common law, custom or otherwise) including, but not limited to, those relating to the exercise of reasonable care and skill, fitness for purpose and satisfactory quality (where applicable) are hereby excluded in relation to each of the Services to be provided here under to the fullest extent permitted by law.

4.3 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) shall not be liable for any services or products to be supplied by any third party.

4.4 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) shall not be liable for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature suffered by You arising out of or in connection with any breach of this Agreement by You or any act, misrepresentation, error or omission made by or on behalf of You.

4.5 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss, account for profits, wasted management time, damage, cost or expense of any kind whatsoever and howsoever arising (whether out of the provision of the Services or failure to provide the Services or otherwise), loss of production, loss of or corruption to data, loss of profits or of contracts, loss of operation time, loss of goodwill or anticipated savings or any liability of You to a third party, even if Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) has been advised of the possibility of such loss.

4.6 Subject to Clause 4.7 below, no matter how many claims are made and whatever the basis of such claims, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) maximum aggregate liability to You under or in connection with this Agreement in respect of any direct loss (or any other loss to the extent that such loss is not excluded by Clauses 4.1-4.5 above, Clause 8.4 below or otherwise) whether such claim arises in contract or in tort shall not exceed a sum equal to twice the Fees paid by You during the then previous 12 months.

4.7 None of the clauses herein shall apply so as to restrict liability for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), its employees or its subcontractors.

4.8 You warrant that You have complied with all Relevant Legislation, including without limitation, the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to the information and Material that You provide to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) pursuant hereto.

4.9 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will not be liable to for any damages or loss caused by software supplied and installed by You on any server owned or leased by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing)., regardless of the method of software installation.

5. TERMINATION

5.1 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) may terminate this Agreement and/or suspend any of the Services which it provides to You by notice in writing (including email to Your most recently supplied email address) with immediate effect if:

5.1.1 You are in breach of any of Your obligations under this Agreement (including without limitation, failure to pay sums due to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) by the due date);

5.1.2 You are a company and a resolution is passed for Your winding up or a petition for Your liquidation is presented; or

5.1.3 You are an individual and a petition for bankruptcy is presented against it; or

5.1.4 a receiver or liquidator (where You are a company) or (where You are an individual) a trustee in bankruptcy is appointed over You or any of Your assets; or

5.1.5 You propose or enter into any arrangement or composition with or for Your creditors (including any voluntary arrangement).

5.2 In the event that any of the circumstances identified in Clause 5.1 arises, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) shall have the option to terminate this Agreement as regards all Services provided or to be provided or only as regards that Service or those Services in respect of which the breach is considered by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to have been committed; and

5.3 In the event that any of the circumstances identified in Clause 5.1 arises, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) shall be entitled to retain any sums paid to it by You here under and recover any sums due to it pursuant hereto whether invoiced or not at the date of termination.

5.4 In the event that You would like to terminate the services supplied by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) for circumstances unrelated to those identified in Clause 5.1, You must provide to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) a minimum of 14 days written notice of your intention to terminate this Agreement.

5.5 Upon termination of services and/ or agreement as per Clause 5.4, You must make payment for outstanding invoices or charges due from the supply of services by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) up to the date of termination.

5.6 In the event that the AUP is breached, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will terminate the service with immediate effect and without further obligation or liability to You. In light of Clause 5.1 to 5.4, only Clause 5.5 shall be applicable in the event of an immediate termination .

5.7 In the event that Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) resumes any of the Services which it has suspended or terminated, it reserves the right to charge a resumption fee in accordance with its then current charges.

6. CONFIDENTIALITY

6.1 Each of the parties agrees (subject to Clauses 6.2 and 6.3) not to:

6.1.1 disclose any Confidential Information received from the other party; or

6.1.2 make any use of any such Confidential Information other than for the purposes of performance of this Agreement.

6.2 Each party may disclose Confidential Information received from the other to

its responsible employees, consultants, subcontractors or suppliers who need to receive the information in the course of performance of this Agreement.

6.3 The confidentiality obligations under Clause 6.1 shall not apply to any information which:

6.3.1 is or subsequently becomes available to the general public other than through a breach by the receiving party; or

6.3.2 is already known to the receiving party before disclosure by the disclosing party;

6.3.3 is developed through the independent efforts of the receiving party; or

6.3.4 the receiving party rightfully receives from a third party without restriction as to use.

7. GENERAL

7.1 Subject to Clause 7.2, this written Agreement together with the Schedules hereto and any other expressly incorporated document constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and neither party has relied on any representation made by the other party unless such representation is expressly included herein. Nothing in this Clause 7.1 shall relieve either party of liability for fraudulent misrepresentations and neither party shall be entitled to any remedy for either any negligent or innocent misrepresentation except to the extent (if any) that a court or arbitrator may allow reliance on the same as being fair and reasonable.

7.2 No change, alteration or modification to this Agreement shall be valid unless in writing and deemed to have been accepted by both parties.

7.3 If any provision of this Agreement or part thereof shall be void for whatever reason, it shall be deemed deleted and the remaining provisions shall continuing full force and effect.

7.4 Your rights and obligations under this Agreement are personal to You and You undertake that You shall not, without the prior written consent of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), assign, lease, charge, sub-license, or otherwise transfer such rights and obligations in whole or in part.

7.5 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reserves the right to subcontract any of the work required to fulfil its obligations here under.

7.6 Any notice given pursuant hereto may be served personally or sent by email, prepaid registered letter or recorded delivery to the addresses given here above. Such notice shall be deemed to have been duly served upon and received by the addressee, when served personally, at the time of such service, when sent by email to the last known email address of the addressee, 24 hours after despatch or, when posted, 48 hours after the same shall have been put into the post correctly addressed and prepaid.

7.7 Neither party shall be liable for any loss suffered by the other party or be deemed to be in default for any delays or failures in performance here under (other than in relation to payment) resulting from acts or causes beyond its reasonable control or from any acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supranational authority.

7.8 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) carries out data backups (excluding email) for use by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing). in the event of systems failure. Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) does not provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) accepts no responsibility for data loss, email loss or corruptions. The client is strongly advised to keep backups of ALL data.

7.9 Any delay or forbearance by either party in enforcing any provisions of this Agreement or any of its rights here under shall not be construed as a waiver of such provision or right thereafter to enforce the same.

7.10 Clause headings have been included in this Agreement for convenience only and shall not be considered part of, or be used in interpreting, this Agreement.

7.11 This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.

SECTION B – DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION AND TRANSFERS

Together with the terms of Section A above, the terms set out in this Section B identify the extent of the domain name registration and transfer services provided by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) and the Client's obligations in relation thereto.

8.1 You recognise and accept that:-

8.2 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reserves the right to reject any request by You to register any particular domain name or to discontinue processing such a request if Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) considers such application might expose Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to legal or other proceedings.

8.3 Subject to Clause 8.17, the extent of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) hosting service in relation to the registration of domain names is:-

8.3.1 to forward Your application to the appropriate Registry;

8.3.2 to provide administrative support in securing the registration.

8.4 Subject to using its reasonable endeavours to contact You prior to the domain name registration renewal date(s) at the e-mail address most recently provided by You pursuant to Clause 3.2.1, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will have no involvement in, or responsibility for Your use or retention of a domain name once registered;

8.5 Where You require Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) to enable a transfer of a domain name from the existing registrar to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing), You undertake to notify Your existing registrar and do everything required to facilitate the transfer.

8.6 For the avoidance of doubt and in addition to the provisions of Clause 4.1-4.9 above, in no circumstances will Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) be liable to You for any loss of profit, business or anticipated savings suffered by You on account of a failure to obtain or loss of a domain name;

8.7 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) makes no warranty or representation of any kind in relation to the likelihood or otherwise of a particular domain name application being successful because domain name registries retain the right at their discretion to register or refuse to register a domain name applied for by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing). on Your behalf;

8.8 Your use of the domain name once registered may be challenged by a third party; if so, or if any other dispute arises the procedures laid down by the relevant registry will apply and these may include the suspension or revocation of a Your application for a domain name or the registration of a domain name allocated to You and Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing). will have no responsibility or involvement in relation thereto;

8.9 It is Your responsibility to pay any and all renewal charges to the relevant registry in respect of each domain name registered by Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) on Your behalf;

8.10 Domain names are registered on a first come, first served basis;

8.11 The registration of a domain name does not confer any legal rights to a name or its use and any disputes between You and a third party are to be settled using normal legal methods. Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) 'will not be drawn into any such argument or dispute in any circumstances;

8.12 An application for the registration of a domain name cannot be treated as having been successful until You are issued with a "Registration Certificate" from the relevant registry. You are advised not to take any action in respect of a requested domain name until such a certificate has been issued to You.

8.13 You warrant to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) that:-

8.14 All information provided by You to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is true and correct, and that any additions or alterations thereto in the future will also be true and correct;

8.15 You have the legal right to apply for and use the domain name(s) as a Website address;

8.16 The domain name(s) and its use as a Website address does not and will not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or any other rights of a third party

8.17 You acknowledge that the application process, registration and subsequent use of any domain name will be subject to the rules and policies from time to time of the relevant registry and You agree to abide by all such rules and policies. Accordingly, You undertake to read those rules and policies before applying for a domain name (copies are generally available from the relevant registry's Website and are available from Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) by fax or post on request).

8.18 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that any application by You for registration and/or transfer of a domain name from Your current registrar to Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is successfully completed. However, if for any reason beyond Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reasonable control, the application or transfer is rejected or unsuccessful, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reserves the right to cover its costs by retaining any payments received from You.

SECTION C – DATA CENTRE INTERNET ACCESS & HOSTING

9.1 Whilst Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will use its reasonable endeavours to provide these services as detailed on the pages referred to above, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is dependent on equipment provided by third parties and therefore outside of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) control and to this extent, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is not liable for any, Downtime, interruption to or other problems with these services.

9.2 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) provide a standard connectivity uptime of 99.9%. In certain circumstances this may vary dependant upon the level Support provided, therefore You should refer to Your Service Level Agreement.

SECTION D - BANDWIDTH ONLY PROVISION

10.1 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will use its reasonable endeavours to maintain continuity of bandwidth availability indicated in the Order Form. However, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is not responsible for any Downtime, connectivity or other problems which are outside of its reasonable control.

10.2 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will not provide any services to monitor the used amount of bandwidth for any client. It is Your responsibility to monitor and ensure that you do not overuse your allocated bandwidth usage.

10.3 Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) is entitled to produce for its own records a report to monitor any monthly bandwidth over-uses. If it is shown from that report that You have exceeded your allowed bandwidth allocation, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) 'hosting' reserves the right to decide whether to calculate the bandwidth used and charge You for the overused bandwidth for that particular month or period.

SECTION E - FAIR USE

11.2 It is acknowledged that any single account is entitled to utilise the server resources, within reason, up to what is allotted or by what is physically available. If resources become scarce, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reserves the right to limit users of the affected machine to a lower limit to preserve the effectiveness of the service for all users. If a particular user is in extreme excess of what the average users of the machine have in use (actually used) of their resource allotments, that customer may be asked to remove content, cut resource usage, or relocate to a dedicated service provider. This policy only applies to web sites that are considered to be abusive in service, disk space or resource consumption and where it is evident that the "fair-use" of resources among customers has been breached, particularly in regards to disk space, bandwidth or CPU processing power utilisation. Additionally, web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the sole discretion of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing).

SECTION F - Spam and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) Policy

12.2 Customers of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) may not use, or permit others to use, our network to partake in UCE distribution. Customers of Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) may not host or permit hosting of sites or information that is advertised by UCE from other networks.

12.3 Upon notification of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will initiate an immediate investigation. During the investigation, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) may restrict customer access to the network to prevent further violations. Subscriber will thereafter be advised of the situation. If a subscriber is found to be in violation of this Terms Of Service, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) may, at its sole discretion, unilaterally restrict, suspend or terminate the violating customer's account. Further, Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. Yachting Matters (Colin Squire Publishing) will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offence.